Flea Market Find

[Road Dog]

Got this at the Flea today. Fella was selling all sorts of local (NC) artifacts. He had boxes full of partial arrowheads,tools,pottery pieces etc. Pulled this mostly intact bowl from the pile.

 

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[birdpointgriswold]

I have about 25 fields I hunt and only 5-8 of them produce pottery shards and they are all within 5 miles of each other. And produce late archaic to woodland points more so archaic than woodland. I've picked about about 20 woodland points and over 200 archaic points out of those fields this year alone. All my other fields produce paleo, to woodland but never ever any pottery. The 5-8 I believe were very highly populated areas, that had been used for 100s maybe 1000s of years. I do know for a fact that one site was one of the largest populated areas of my part of the state. They put in a highway a few years ago and dug up numerous full skeletons that were in fact indian burials.

Idk what I'm getting at the more I type haha. Umm pottery is very very scarce in my part of NC. And to find a shard bigger than a quarter is treasured. And most of the shards I find either have corn cob prints or cordage immpressions.

 

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[SOHIO]

And this is just my opinion and it's also a touchy subject but I believe the eastern half of North America was populated separately than the Western land bridge people.

me too

 

[Road Dog]

The site I hunt was a residential base camp. It had pottery, tools ,arrowheads, axes,metates, manos etc. A ton of debitage. Located on highground on the inside bend of a stream. Site was occupied from Clovis to Yadkin.

 

[GatorBoy]

Well done! I don't know if you did a lot of studying to find that area... a lot of studying after... or a combination of the both... either way that's prime territory as you obviously know. Congratulations on a killer site.

 

[NC field hunter]

I have about 25 fields I hunt and only 5-8 of them produce pottery shards and they are all within 5 miles of each other. And produce late archaic to woodland points more so archaic than woodland. I've picked about about 20 woodland points and over 200 archaic points out of those fields this year alone. All my other fields produce paleo, to woodland but never ever any pottery. The 5-8 I believe were very highly populated areas, that had been used for 100s maybe 1000s of years. I do know for a fact that one site was one of the largest populated areas of my part of the state. They put in a highway a few years ago and dug up numerous full skeletons that were in fact indian burials.

Idk what I'm getting at the more I type haha. Umm pottery is very very scarce in my part of NC. And to find a shard bigger than a quarter is treasured. And most of the shards I find either have corn cob prints or cordage immpressions.

JG, are you considered in the piedmont of NC? I'm headed home. I'll post the pottery that i found in my home town in a few minutes! Hey, you have all of the pottery you need ! Lol! I bet you are tired of looking at pottery. Well, maybe exaggerated, but you know what I'm hinting at. That thing is right !

 

[birdpointgriswold]

JG, are you considered in the piedmont of NC? I'm headed home. I'll post the pottery that i found in my home town in a few minutes! Hey, you have all of the pottery you need ! Lol! I bet you are tired of looking at pottery. Well, maybe exaggerated, but you know what I'm hinting at. That thing is right !

Wilson Nash counties

 

[birdpointgriswold]

Wilson Nash counties

Kinda on the edge

 

[NC field hunter]

These are the only pieces of pottery that I have ever found in my home town. The last one may not even be pottery, but a chip off of an old tobacco barn brick. Do any of these look familiar to you guys?



























Thanks for any info.

 

[GatorBoy]

I know I'm not from North Carolina but I have some that Jonathan sent Me.. I think you might have 1 piece there.

 

[NC field hunter]

I know I'm not from North Carolina but I have some that Jonathan sent Me.. I think you might have 1 piece there.

Which one? They all absorb water. The last one, I'm almost certain is a weathered tobacco barn brick ( chip of one) the other 2 I'm pretty sure of. I'm curious which one you call. I'm not kidding, the land around here in the piedmont is different. See how thin they are. The second pic is a reddish color. We have lots of red clay here. I would think that to be premo. potter's ground, but....

 

[birdpointgriswold]

Nc idk if any of those are pottery shards hard to tell maybe that 2nd from the last. This is what I find looks like. Typically they are black to dark gray on one side and almost perfectly dirt color on the other. If black gray side isn't up they are almost impossible to see.

 

[GatorBoy]

I will post a photo of what I have from North Carolina.











I had to throw a few North Carolina points in there..haha

 

[NC field hunter]

Nc idk if any of those are pottery shards hard to tell maybe that 2nd from the last. This is what I find looks like. Typically they are black to dark gray on one side and almost perfectly dirt color on the other. If black gray side isn't up they are almost impossible to see.

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When you dampen them, do they leave a soot like color on your hand?

 

[birdpointgriswold]

When you dampen them, do they leave a soot like color on your hand?

Nope, another way you can tell is the sound of them and the weight, kinda light feeling and if you tap it against a rock I doesn't make much noise kinda hollow sounding, not like the sharp sound that 2 rocks make